Rumi Quotes
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
Quotes to Explore
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
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In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.
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He that fears death, or mourns it, in the just, Shows of the resurrection little trust.
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Death was kind of a boisterous egomaniac that needed no encouragement.
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Are we not still guilty, if to a less violent degree, of recklessness, of improvidence with regard to our future and our humanity? War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
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Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
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....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.
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I must admit I don't usually buy a daily paper, although I will get one if there's an interview I want to read.
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
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Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.
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Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
